Yacine: coaxed Astra into decent code by painstaking task-splitting — DS-Flash would've been faster
yacineMTB · x · 2026-09-23
yacineMTB shares his experience getting Astra to write semi-decent code: it required carefully iterating back and forth on the exact changes and splitting the work into multiple pieces. He suspects the whole process would have taken less effort by just coding directly with DS-Flash. A candid take on the friction of agent-driven coding for complex goals.
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